Chapter 15 - England in the Eighteenth Century

Inadequate Equilibria Teaser

No holiday episode. In lieu, I give you this teaser for my next podcasting project.

Chapter 16 & Chapter 17 - Athenian Law and Enforcing Rules

I was in a rush preparing this, and didn't know until it was too late that this microphone I bought was horrible. Audio-Technica, I know for a fact you can do better, so what the Christian side hug is going on with the ATR2100? Listener, rest assured this is on my remake list, and I just spent good money (though not a lot) on a recording setup that someone actually paid to record stuff might use, so it, like episodes 1-4, will get redone properly. In a perfect world I'd have all the remakes done by the time the last chapter uploads but I cannot be certain that will happen; subsequent uploads will keep you posted on my plans. The reason I was in a rush preparing this is that I'm giving a talk which features a fair amount of content from this chapter at the megameetup's Unconference on Sunday 12/22 and *really* did not want to miss an upload deadline related to possible new audience while traveling without a laptop. (There are programs available for editing on a phone but I have not yet gotten the hang of using them to the extent that I'm willing dive into a project like this - ~12 hours of editing trying to manually remove pops with Generate Silence was just wretched, and it didn't work anyway). It helped me crystallize the talk itself, which will consist of a meta-level look at what questions this book is trying to make us ask, and which I might upload after the book itself has concluded. I have a project in the works to follow this one, so email me if you'd be interested in a bit part. This podcast reading of Legal Systems Very Different from Ours is provided with the prior written permission of David Friedman, Peter Leeson and David Skarbek. I am none of those people; I am GSV Bemusement Park, and you can reach me online at GSVBemusementPark@gmail.com. Production Notes can be found in this file’s description. Some sound effects used are courtesy of Finnolia Productions via SoundEffectsPlus.com. The music used is"Semi-Funk", by Kevin McLeod, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution. You can find him at Incompetech.com. Citations and footnotes are omitted for reading clarity but can be found in the text. If you like this podcast or find this material valuable, please support the authors by purchasing this book, which you can find at Amazon.com, and/or reviewing this podcast so that other people can find it. Thanks for listening!

Chapter 15 - England in the Eighteenth Century

Since my last upload, this podcast has reached 500 downloads! Thanks so much to everyone listening in, especially to those of you who've shared it with others, and to the Bayesian Conspiracy having me on to talk about it. Apparently I jinxed myself when I last commented that I'd finally gotten one out on schedule. Next week's should be out on time as it's already fully recorded and partly edited. I will be at the NYC rationalist soltice at Hunter College on Dec 21st and at the rationalist megameetup for the weekend straddling it if anyone wants to chat. Apart from the pirate episode, this has been by far my favorite episode to make, and I'd say that it's the one we have the most to learn from if Iceland hadn't come up five chapters ago. The removal of most of the feud elements makes it rather more modernity-friendly than the unadulterated Icelandic system. I wonder what responses might be heard if you suggested allowing compounding for modern crimes; I also think the impact would be much less than either supporters or opponents expect, since modern law enforcement is concerned almost totally with enforcement against the defendant rather than justice for the victim, and also because much or most of the effort spent on law enforcement today is wasted on drug policy crafted by people with no regard for behavioral economics. This podcast reading of Legal Systems Very Different from Ours is provided with the prior written permission of David Friedman, Peter Leeson and David Skarbek. I am none of those people; I am GSV Bemusement Park, and you can reach me online at GSVBemusementPark@gmail.com. Production Notes can be found in this file’s description. Some sound effects used are courtesy of Finnolia Productions via SoundEffectsPlus.com. The music used is"Semi-Funk", by Kevin McLeod, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution. You can find him at Incompetech.com. Citations and footnotes are omitted for reading clarity but can be found in the text. If you like this podcast or find this material valuable, please support the authors by purchasing this book, which you can find at Amazon.com, and/or reviewing this podcast so that other people can find it. Thanks for listening!